Today's Topics:
1. France, Alternative Libertaire AL n° special - Legal
Assistance: defcol on the go (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL n° special - Diversity of
Tactics: In Rennes, the waltz dance four times! (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Since March, the activists of the collective defense group are enabled on the judicial
front, to counteract the repression. ---- For four months, the police and judiciary have
tried to stem the movement against labor law. In Paris, the police prevented the general
meetings of standing and emptied Republic Square on many occasions. The protests were
framed by the mobile and CRS provocatively, and systematically sprayed tear gas and even
désencerclement. ---- But after the baton, repression continues with the judicial arsenal:
identity checks, bans on demonstrations, arrests and custody, immediate appearances, trial
for "insult and rebellion" of judicial openings "attempt 'voluntary homicide "… ---- From
the first weeks of the fight, a group called collective defense (defcol) was organized in
Paris to provide guidance and tools to participants, those arrested and their families.
The idea of defcol is that the action against the repression must not remain the domain
of specialists. It should be large, self-organized, and not to make sorting of supposed
"good" or "bad" protesters or between ways of doing that would be legitimate and others
illegitimate. All those arrested during demonstrations, actions or occupations are worth
defending.
Financing exclusively by donations
The lawyers who work with defcol attended and defended both major as minor in their
custody and confrontations at immediate hearings or court appearances prior admission of
guilt before the judge of freedoms and detention and during their expulsion hearing. They
and they also follow several judicial information.
Defcol members attended the immediate appearances whenever the demonstrators and
protesters were likely to be tried there, trying to provide all necessary support to the
relatives of the accused. Information as widely as possible was made during the
demonstrations and actions of the movement.
Defcol finance defense exclusively by donations. The lawyers and the lawyers are paid
through legal aid or the equivalent amount when it is not possible. In their interventions
in custody during his surrender to the prosecutor and during the immediate appearance, it
is the scale of public defenders.
Member defcol
Financing: through Helloasso.com platform (type "defcol")
Such. 07-53-82-19-10
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Entraide-juridique-Defcol-sur-la
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Message: 2
In a broad movement, there are certain fractions and others more cautious. The whole thing
is they accept diversity of tactics and remain secured against the common adversary. In
Rennes, illustration four times. ---- 1. The demo! First, the demonstrations were those of
youth. The unions came softly in dance. Result, fast enough the demonstrations took place
in two stages: first the traditional parade unit; then, for the most determined fraction,
a reboot of the protest action with the key. ---- 2. The public space! Confiscation of
public space by the city and the prefecture is undeniably a crystallization point of
interprofessional dynamics in Rennes. In response, on May 1st, the movement has invested
the house of the people, historic site of Rennes unionism, sacrificed on the altar of
gentrification. The occupation, although short, was supported and invested by the unions
to varying degrees. Formal support but displayed the CGT and FO, active participation of
Partners, the CNT and PES.
3. Action! The entrance to the road dance contributed to breaking down barriers. The
pickets were an opportunity for exchanges and meetings. Multiple initiatives have emerged,
sometimes joint, sometimes not. But it must be stressed that the strength of this movement
in Rennes was the acceptance by all its components, its diversity. Thus the Inter
gradually open to "non-representative" unions far apart, but also to more informal
structures such as interprovincial AG or the Coordination of intermittent and precarious.
4. Repression! Acceptance of diversity of tactics needed in a social movement was also
found in supporting the accused, whatever the charges, and the creation of a collective
gathering so very wide political organizations, unions and associations, denouncing one
voice criminalization of militancy.
Mathilde (AL Rennes)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Diversite-des-tactiques-A-Rennes
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